Goliath Quotes

“In the belly of a surveillance drone somewhere drone somewhere is that moment frozen, perhaps itself deserving of the caption: David versus Goliath.”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

“history don’t repeat itself, but it sure as hell rhymes.”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

“but do you ever wonder why a seminar on white privilege is just a bunch of white people trying to figure out what’s wrong with being lucky?”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

“of the sky fighting against themselves, and if this isn’t apocalypse, it’ll do until the real one gets here.”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

“Ugh, this is what happens when your building’s full of white people. All of a sudden, everyone cares about your health.”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

“Everywhere I landed, I didn't really feel like I belonged. Doing postgrad stuff, I felt like I didn't have any skills. Just felt unaccomplished. I was just there to ride out the downturn, and I felt like everybody knew it. Then there's the shame of unemployment. because I wasn't really unemployed. There were plenty of people who were actually looking for jobs. Auntie had lost her job as a tax analyst, turned around and became a nurse. Felt like I was ducking and dodging responsibility. I was just overeducated and useless, taking a job from someone who needed it and deserved it more than me. Got put in a psych ward after a suicide attempt, and when I was in that place, I didn't even feel like I was really depressed or really going through it. Felt like I was faking it to get out of something. Like I was avoiding work. Felt like there was no place for me, because I wasn't capable of working. All my friends who studied econ got jobs overseas, and I was just walking around taking up space.”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

“…Your population of guards is pulling from the rural South Carolina job Market? Lotta poor white people bein’ eft behind while the planet’s getting’ warmer and the rich folk are fucking off to space. A lot of the bad stuff white did to Black folk, they did to these kids. Some of these kids came in beyond hope. They watched their parents get spied on by police and picked up in unmarked vans. Had their first taste of first-gen toasters. They just knew how the whole system was. They knew and didn’t give a fuck. I think it just made them more likely to blow the whole place up. Ain’t no cage for their kind of angry.”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

“The bedsheets chilled their bodies with sweat-soak, rumpled beneath them. They lay side by side, David and Jonthan, and, behind their blindfolds, they traced the arc their drones made over earth. Lux levels rose in golden bars just outside their vision as the drones dipped through clouds cover and flew past domed cityscapes. Chicago glowed through a blanket of clouds. The drones swooped upward and dwarf galaxies turned from cosmic smudges into multihued ninja shurikens.”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath

“when the streets were animated with socio-economic caste struggle, this was a place with all history and no future.”
― Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath